Category: theatre

“I’m still in suspense. Where’s the smoking gun? I keep thinking that someone or something else was betrayed and no one has noticed. I know this sounds stupid, but I gotta ask: Did Mike Daisey act alone? For such a big betrayal he must have had accomplices, right? I mean people helped him put this piece on. Did they commission him? They certainly encouraged the guy.”

Alexis Soloski: “They have the moves and the range, but most favour a straightforward, indicative performance style that has only a tangential relationship to stage acting. … Then again, there are singers that one finds so delicious, so charismatic that it shouldn’t matter whether or not they can act.”

“The most expensive seat was £97.50 for a musical (Billy Elliot) and £97 for a play (The Ladykillers). The cheapest non-discounted seat that audiences can buy for a West End musical is for Les Miserables at £12, and the least expensive play is War Horse with tickets starting at £10.”

Andrew Lloyd Webber has sold the Palace Theatre, one of his flagship venues and the original West End home to Les Miserables, to Nimax Theatres for an undisclosed sum.

A mounting debt and economic downturn forced the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton, Florida to postpone the world premiere of their production, “Our Lady of Allapattah.” The company also had to pay the actors in their most recent production, “Working,” out of the Actors Equity Association Bond.

“The young actor playing the 12-year-old Billy in the adaptation of the acclaimed 2000 film directed by Daldry must sing, tap, perform ballet, do acrobatics, master a Northern England accent and demonstrate acting chops.”

“Ilan Ronen, Habima’s artistic director, speaking in Tel Aviv said: ‘In Israel they are saying, we shouldn’t take this play [The Merchant of Venice] and perform it at all, they think of it as an anti-semitic play. We are under pressure from both sides. I don’t see the play as anti-semitic, it deals with racism, and xenophobia.”

“Nearly 15 years after it made its debut to both critical and popular acclaim, The Lion King has topped The Phantom of the Opera as Broadway’s highest-grossing musical of all time. The show, based on the Disney animated film of 1994, has grossed $854 million.”

“Despite being found to have fabricated details in his one-man show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Mike Daisey will lead off the season at the Cape Cod Theater Project this summer. Working with the director Jean-Michele Gregory, Mr. Daisey will devise a new work at the theater, where he developed the Jobs project, among others.”

“Several theater producers contacted recently said that Carrie, no matter how well acted and sung, presented far more than the usual share of difficulties, the most insurmountable being that nearly every character is dead at the end.”